Join us for this fundraising dinner to celebrate our 2025 Outstanding Achievement Award Honoree, jazz musician Oskar Stenmark, plus—new for 2025—a live auction!
Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, drinks, live music from acoustic duo "Take Two," and a fabulous silent auction followed by a delicious buffet dinner by Jeffrey A. Miller Catering, Oskar will also give a short jazz performance during his honoree remarks.
Beginning in March ASHM’s changing exhibition gallery will host a community exhibition Through the Eyes of Philadelphia’s New Americans: Art, Resilience, and Community from our Philadelphia neighbor SEAMAAC. This exhibition includes art pieces created as part of SEAMAAC resilience art programs over the past five years.
Join us for the opening of the ASHM Balcony exhibit Across the Atlantic: Sloopers and the First Organized Emigration from Norway to America.
Enjoy traditional Norwegian recipes, a special kransekake from MANDEL bakery, and the opportunity to meet Susan Satkowski, Norwegian Honorary Consul.
Across the Atlantic explores the trans-Atlantic journey of the first organized group of Norwegian immigrants to sail to the United States. Traveling aboard a small sloop called the Restauration, the 1825 voyage took 98 days and tested the resolve of its passengers and crew from the onset.
We’re excited to announce that our final New Sweden Legacy Lecture will now be available both in person and online via Zoom! Guests can choose to join us in person or online via Zoom for this special event. In-person attendees will enjoy a brunch reception following the lecture and have the exclusive opportunity to meet past lecturers Paul Kahan and Jay Smith!
Made in Belgium in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, this magnificently carved meerschaum pipe features an elegantly carved amber stem, and a grotesque bowl wrought in the shape of a grinning skull. Though not of Swedish make, the pipe is said to have been owned by Oscar II (1829-1907), King of Sweden and Norway around the turn of the twentieth century. It was donated to the museum in 1947.
Sweden is a leader when it comes to recycling. Less than 1% of household waste ends up at a landfill! This month toddlers will learn that they are never too young to start recycling by following the story of a little green monster in the book I Can Save the Earth by Alison Inches. Kids will learn how resources can be reused instead of thrown away by playing games and doing art with recycled materials. Toddler will even get to fill a recycled seed planter to take home.
The phenomenon of aurora borealis can be seen across many arctic countries and certainly lights up the sky in northern Sweden. Join us for Toddler Time as we read Roaring, Boring Alice by P.K. Merski, make colorful crafts, and do a color mixing science experiment!
The American Swedish Historical Museum is Philly's Best Museum - again!
ASHM has been voted the Best Museum in Philadelphia again this year! ASHM has won Best Museum in Metro Philadelphia's Philly Best contest for 2024, in addition to being voted Best Museum in the Philadelphia Inquirer's Philly Favorites 2024 contest.
The Museum previously won Best Museum in Metro Philly's Best in 2021.
The American Swedish Historical Museum won GOLD for “Best Museum” in the Philadelphia Inquirer’s
Philly Favorites contest!
This marks the second time that ASHM has been voted the Best Museum by the community. The Museum previously won Best Museum in Metro Philadelphia’s Philly’s Best Contest in 2021.